In an interview with China Daily in 2014, Wang Yudong, director of the art trade centre at the Beijing Culture Free Port, declared: "We have mapped out a global free-port strategy. Our aim is to build an art free-port network in Asia" (Deng, 2014: para. 5). Facilitated by state partners from...

We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...

Before the advent of the single market, Europe's most successful businesses were those which confined their operations to strictly defined market segments or regions. Analysis of corporate performance since then has uncovered hard evidence of a greater ability to compete internationally and...